Shots Fired: A Machinist Guide

[ElasmoFan]

Question for you guys. With all the cooldowns / procs I have to keep an eye on, as well as boss mechanics, I'm noticing having trouble keeping an eye on my dots / buffs and letting them run out. Anyone else having this problem? Is there a solution that you guys have found such as moving hotbars or something? I'm trying my best to pay attention to everything but sometimes there's just so much going on I forget about one thing or another.

[Judge_Xero]

Hot Shot is the same timer as Lead Shot.
When you refresh Hot Shot, refresh Lead shot.

[Myon88]

On a related note, I remember people talking about shot damage occasionally not being added to Wildfire if you hit the target too near Wildfire's expiration time (say, the last second or something). Be it due to latency or whatever.

This might be me being superstitious, but I've completely stopped seeing this happening after I started tacking a throwaway ogcd like Leg/Foot Graze to the end of the last Slug Shot. It feels like it gets the game to update the stack better, compared to Slug Shot, [Empty GCD] which just feels iffy to me sometimes. Your other damaging ogcds are on cooldown at this point so you lose nothing by doing it.

It seems similar to that other superstition of hitting a boss with something after stepping out of an AoE, to get the server to update your position promptly.

Again, whether these are nonsense beliefs or have some basis in reality I don't know enough about the game's networking to say. I thought I'd just throw it out, I've not had any 'accidents' with Wildfire since.

[Ryaz]

Anyone else having a problem with some bosses going invincible before Wildfire goes off? I see it mostly in Neverreap on the first and third boss. Especially in a good group when you're killing the boss really fast, you usually don't even get 15 seconds in between invincible phases for Wildfire to be used, much less your entire buff phase. Really kills damage on those fights. Obviously, being dungeons it doesn't matter as much, but it's still really annoying. I know how BLMs feel when they lose Enochian because of it.

[Myon88]

Precisely, I agree with you and that is the rationale behind my opener as well.

I was replying to Ryaz up at the top of this page:
"The extra turret shots would be nice... If they counted as part of Wildfire. Everything I've read says turrets don't add any damage to Wildfire at all. "

[Ephier]

Precisely, I agree with you. I was replying to Ryaz up at the top of this page.

Ah okay. Also the reason I do not use gauss round in the pre opener is because rapid fire speeds up the GCD to the point where gauss round won't be back up until after wildfire exploded. So I would have to test both of those openers as well. I already spent a good 6 hours doing openers this morning, then you bring that up. orz

[girlsimulation]

Ah okay. Also the reason I do not use gauss round in the pre opener is because rapid fire speeds up the GCD to the point where gauss round won't be back up until after wildfire exploded. So I would have to test both of those openers as well. I already spent a good 6 hours doing openers this morning, then you bring that up. orz

What about popping rapid fire right after lead shot? It speeds up your split shot so you'll only have about 1 second of wildfire without all your buffs, but that 1 second is also enough time for gauss round to come off cd and for you to use it.
e: no, this doesn't quite work. b4b and he definitely still drop off before your last gcd in wildfire.

[Ephier]

What about popping rapid fire right after lead shot? It speeds up your split shot so you'll only have about 1 second of wildfire without all your buffs, but that 1 second is also enough time for gauss round to come off cd and for you to use it.
e: no, this doesn't quite work. b4b and he definitely still drop off before your last gcd in wildfire.

Also note, using RF first allows for you to pot without clipping after hot shot, as you will have the full 1.5s of GCD compared to casting and have 1s or less.

[Lavieh]

Also note, using RF first allows for you to pot without clipping after hot shot, as you will have the full 1.5s of GCD compared to casting and have 1s or less.

You also lose a whole GCD within Wildfire.

[Haxetc]

Also note, using RF first allows for you to pot without clipping after hot shot, as you will have the full 1.5s of GCD compared to casting and have 1s or less.

There is no chance that you aren't clipping a GCD by using a pot after HS with RF up. The time you are unable to use a WS after using a pot is like 2 seconds or so. Maybe it's possible with JP latency but Medicine and Food make it take forever to cast a new GCD. Also, do you have any proof that opening with RF ends up as higher DPS? I find it hard to believe seeing as how I'm pretty sure I played with that a long time ago but I'm not 100% sure. Not saying you're wrong. Just saying that I would like something more concrete than just word of mouth.